Louis Loveless
Artist Statement:
I am a multi-disciplinary artist and collage is at the core of my practice, it works as the main idea and image generator and starts my chain of questioning. I am currently working on a painting project which aims to disrupt traditions in oil paintings using the language of collage, technology and diagrams.
The paintings vary in size from thirty centimetres to six metres. A pattern of interlocking geometric and non-geometric shapes of colour and mark-making form the background in which smaller images are interwoven. Some of the images overlap and disrupt each other whilst others sit alone in large areas of space but are all connected to one another in differing ways.
The imagery includes references to the medical, the mystical and the gothic. The visual devices of scientific diagrams are used to dissect topics that are unscientific, such as conspiracy theories, religion and the paranormal. The compositions of the works are influenced by the structure of neural network diagrams and the language of forensic investigations.
Many of the images that appear in the collages and paintings are sourced whilst trawling through strange corners of the internet and they are presented in ways that attempt to open up discussion on the way in which the internet is used by specific groups and the influence it has on certain aspects of contemporary society.
In creating these works I am researching and thinking about the layers of consciousness discussed in psychoanalysis, the anxieties of the digital age and ideas of existential dread.
Artist Biography:
Louis Loveless was born in Ronaldshay Housing Estate in Finsbury park in 1995. At four years of age, he and his family moved to Homerton in Hackney and have lived there since. He attended primary school in Clapton and Secondary School in Tufnell Park, North London before staying on and studying at LaSwap Sixth Form College. After graduating Sixth Form, Loveless studied at the Royal Drawing School Foundation Year where he was trained in traditional painting and drawing. He then studied the first year of a Graphic Design BA at Buckinghamshire New University before taking a year out to work and then changed to a Fine Art BA at the University of East London. He enters competitions, applies for residencies and is open for commissions.
Exhibitions:
“The Muse Gallery Residency Shortlist Show” (Group Show)
The Muse Gallery, 2020
“ING Discerning Eye Prize” (Group Show)
Online Event, 2020
“Dennis Beckton” (Group Show)
Way Out East Gallery & Online Event, 2020
“Data Fatigue” (Solo Show)
E5 Process, 2020
“Not for the Faint Arted” (Group Auction)
The Nunnery Gallery, 2019
“Victim of the Arts” (Group Show)
Thames-Side Studios Gallery, 2019
“Time Team: An Exhibition of Bronzes" (Group Show)
AVA Gallery, 2017
“Spare Blems” (Group Show)
AVA Gallery, 2017
“Herding Cats” (Group Show)
AVA Gallery, 2017
"Royal Drawing School Foundation Year Exhibition" (Group Show)
Trinity Buoy Wharf, 2017
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